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Thursday, November 01, 2012

''WHERE IS YOUR PROOF?'' WENGER HIT OUT AT CHELSEA FOR REFEREE CLATTENBURG ALLEGAATION

Arsene Wenger has criticised Chelsea
for making a public complaint about referee Mark Clattenburg and said
the allegations have ‘little proof’.

Chelsea
have formally accused the official of racially abusing John Obi Mikel
during Sunday’s 3-2 defeat by Manchester United, but the Arsenal boss
said he would prefer to see such matters dealt with internally. Clattenburg is also facing a police investigation after a formal
complaint was made by the Society of Black Lawyers.

Wenger, whose Arsenal side face
United at Old Trafford on Saturday, admitted he has behaved
inappropriately during high-profile matches but insisted disagreements
should be resolved immediately after the game or at least kept behind
closed doors.

Asked
whether he had encountered such incidents with referees, the Arsenal
boss said: ‘Yes. I must say, honestly, my complete deep feeling in that
is that I, myself, was not always completely behaving very well in this
situation because it’s always very heated but I am a deep supporter of
doing that internally.

Meanwhile, Sam Allardyce has
questioned the need for police to be involved in the Clattenburg case,
claiming it is 'sad for football'.

The
West Ham manager said he had never heard a referee abuse a player
during his career and believes the alleged incident at Stamford Bridge
is 'very strange'.Allardyce conceded he traded strong
words with referees when he was a player but added: 'That was never a
problem in our day. There would always be industrial language between
the pair of us. The whole game was different then.'